My Book of Classic Nursery Tales by James Mayhew Many of us will have grown up with familiar tales and nursery rhymes. James Mayhew shares his insights into the importance of storytelling and voice but also in sharing these tales from childhood.     Like so many children, I grew up with traditional folk tales, in particular the Ladybird series of “Well-Loved Tales”, and […]
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Kew: The Apothecary’s Garden by Emma Wayland It’s almost exactly a year since I reviewed two of the Kew Gardens collection books from Welbeck: Fragrance by Josh Carter and Samuel Gearing reviewed here and Parched by Philip Clayton reviewed here. Consequently I was delighted to receive The Apothecary’s Garden by Emma Wayland and extend my grateful thanks to Isabelle Wilson at Headline for […]
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On Ward 15 The regional psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Odesa serves a population of around 2.5 million. It’s surrounded by a high wall; the way in is...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/october/on-ward-15

Come closer D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with him, a way of seeing and...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/202....5/october/come-close